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English Language Arts is an integration of reading, writing, speaking, and listening based on the Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org/) delivered in a way that fosters critical thinking and meets the needs of the middle school child and the 21st Century learner.
During this school year, students will be:
READING
- Students will read, write, and discuss engaging and rigorous literary and informational texts
- Students will write in a range of genres including text-based explanations and arguments
- Students will develop skills for real-world reading, writing, and discussing
- Students will engage in small and whole group text-based discussions
WRITING
- Students will, while using a variety of mentor texts, learn sound sentence, paragraph and essay structures
- Students will learn the 3 "buckets" of writing
- Writing to inform
- Writing to argue/persuade
- Writing to tell a story or narrative
- Students will have more emphasis on non-fiction reading and writing across all content areas
ODDS AND ENDS
- Homework
- Will be posted on this website with due dates
- Will not have homework every night, vacations or weekends
- Late work is accepted with no penalty but must have a parent signature on the top of the assignment
- Reading & Writing
- Most of this work will be done in class as individual and group work
- Submission of work will be via GoogleDocs and Google Classroom unless otherwise stated.
FINAL GRADE BASED ON
- Practice and Participation
- Work towards competency of targets
- Homework and classwork
- Individual and group work
- Formative Assessments
- Self-monitoring of progress: "Where are you now?"
- Data gathered will determine next steps for student and for teacher
- Personal and academic goal setting
- Summative Assessments
- Assignments and assessments designed to measure the competency of targets that will be graded